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I assume that the boil is only with the malt extract and hops, and the Coopers Sparkling can is added straight to the wort? Can anyone confirm that?

Just to raise the issue of this beer again... It's been fermenting fine for over a week now. I racked it off after about 6 days I think. It fermented a little more, and I think now it's all but stopped. I think the probem with initial SG reading was that I had the tin of Coopers Pale sitting in...

Fair enough. I'll probably rack after a week or something, so I'll make check on how it's gone then. Any ideas what kind of FG I ought to be aiming at with this brew? And if I don't seem to be getting there, would pitching another yeast be of any use?

Good point. That could have affected it. Is it worth at this stage giving it a stir?

HI all, I've recently moved into extract/partial type brews. Now I made a pale ale a while back with a recipe like this one and it was great. Yesterday I did the following, but when I threw it in the fermenter and took an initial reading it was 1086, which seemed to me to be on the high side...

Thanks for that. Being new to anything other than kits, I'm still not sure what you mean by mashing the oats, but I can research that. I think it's to do with holding them at a specific temp for a set period of time? I didn't do that with my grains. I just put them in cold water and brought them...

Well I'm in the same boat! I brewed my first all-extract brew on the weekend. But I have serious doubts about how it's going to go. It's a combo of several recipes/suggestions. I'd love some thoughts as to how this might go. It went like this: 150g roast barley 150g chocolate malt 150g rolled...